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Ford 9700 repaint

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jbirnsch

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Picked this up for $8500 with 8200 hours. I don t think it spent a day in a shed its entire life. All the door and window seals are dry rotted. Runs great so far. After I make sure no major issues I d like to repaint it.

Remove old decals with a heat gun or just have them sand blasted off on the panels? Take the paint that left on the cab and fenders down and reprime.

Is it better to steam clean vs power wash with detergent on the engine and transmission to degrease that? Any loose paint would be wire wheeled off on the cast pieces.

I m not looking for restoration quality but want it to look ok from 20 .
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Best I used is dry ice pellets , put down a tarp drive up on it clean it drive off, empty remain trash . Never know you were there except for
clean tractor.
 

Did you have a service come out and do that? What did it cost? Machines that do CO2 blasting are like $13k.
 
Yep I hired them , that was 20+ years ago so I dont know what it would be today .
Ive done Steam cleaning and I dont like it ,where all the odd projections you get a splash back and get burnt sometimes even with with
heavy duty ppe. I dont recommend it .
 
I'd try a hot water pressure washer with degreaser like a Hotsy or Karcher.
I have a 7700 and 8700 both with dry rotted door
and window seals so I'm also looking for them...probably source from Fehr cabs.
The 9700 should look great with new paint
and decals.
 
You can't clean one too much. I would power wash it and then steam clean it. The heat gun may not work on the decals as old as it is, it may take sandblasting or a wire wheel to cut. Just try not to get the metal too hot as it can cause the sheetmetal to warp.
 


My procedure is scrape the thick places with a putty knife first, rather than get the accumulation all goopy. Next I spray heavy duty cleaner with a spray bottle. I let that work for awhile, then go at it with high pressure hot water with cleaner in the spray. I am assuming that by steam you mean hot high pressure water. I haven't seen a steam cleaner since 1972.
 
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